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@ -103,4 +103,4 @@ Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, 476.
## Edward O. Wilson ## Edward O. Wilson
### Conscience ### Conscience
#### snakes #### snakes
Snakes and dream serpents provide an example of how agents ofnature can be translated into the symbols of culture. For hundreds ofthousands of years, time enough for genetic changes in the brain toprogram the algorithms of prepared learning, poisonous snakes havebeen a significant source of injury and death to human beings. The re-sponse to the threat is not simply to avoid it, in the way that certainberries are recognized as poisonous through painful trial and error, butto feel the kind of apprehension and morbid fascination displayed inthe presence of snakes by the nonhuman primates. The snake imagealso attracts many extraneous details that are purely learned, and as a result the intense emotion it evokes enriches cultures around theworld. The tendency of the serpent to appear suddenly in trances anddreams, its sinuous form, and its power and mystery are logical ingredi-ents of myth and religion. Snakes and dream serpents provide an example of how agents ofnature can be translated into the symbols of culture. For hundreds of thousands of years, time enough for genetic changes in the brain to program the algorithms of prepared learning, poisonous snakes havebeen a significant source of injury and death to human beings. The re-sponse to the threat is not simply to avoid it, in the way that certain berries are recognized as poisonous through painful trial and error, but to feel the kind of apprehension and morbid fascination displayed in the presence of snakes by the nonhuman primates. The snake image also attracts many extraneous details that are purely learned, and as a result the intense emotion it evokes enriches cultures around theworld. The tendency of the serpent to appear suddenly in trances and dreams, its sinuous form, and its power and mystery are logical ingredi-ents of myth and religion.